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  • Volunteers wearing protective gear walk across a street covered by toxic red sludge in Devecser, Hungary, on Monday, Oct. 11, 2010. The neighboring town of Kolontar was evacuated Saturday, and Devecser, with a population of 5,300, is also in the likely path of a possible new sludge deluge. (AP Photo/Bela Szandelszky)

    Hungary firm head detained over toxic sludge

    Hungarian police have detained the director of the aluminum company responsible for a flood of caustic red sludge that killed eight people when it burst from its reservoir last week, the prime minister said Monday.

  • In this photo made available on Saturday, Oct. 9, 2010, police and army officials are helping during the evacuation of western Hungary's village of Kolontar, which is being cleared due to new signs of damage that have appeared on the dam of the red sludge reservoir at the nearby Ajka aluminium plant on Friday, Oct. 8, 2010. (AP Photo/MTI, Balint Juhasz)

    Hungary sludge reservoir at risk of collapse

    The cracking wall of an industrial plant reservoir appeared on the verge of collapse late Saturday, and engineers were working to blunt a possible second wave of the caustic red sludge that has already deluged several towns in western Hungary and killed seven.

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